Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — The A. L. A. at Louisville. [ARTICLE]

The A. L. A. at Louisville.

The annual conference of the American Library Association, held at Louisville June 28-9, was most successful in every way, with an attendance of 800. Louisville was hospitality itself, and gave its visitors many charming attentions, including drives, teas and receptions, and ending with a program by literary and musical Louisville. Mrs. George Madden Markin read from Emmy Lou; Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice read from Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; Mr. Cale Young Rice read four of his poems; Mrs. Annie Fellows Johnston gave a paper and stated afterwards in conversation that when a child she lived with her parents on a farm very near Rensselaer. Letters were read from Henry Witters on, rvin Cobb and other absent writers. The great subject for discussion in the conference was library service for the soldiers, and a war committee was appointed the first day and held almost continuous session. It was decided to build and equip libraries nish them with 10,000 volumes each, nis hthe mwith 10,000 volumes each, and provide expert library service. Subcommittees are already working on these plans. It was also proposed to hold a War Service Library Week, probably in September, in all the libraries of America, for the purpose of acquainting the people with the resources of the library, and stimulating the use of them as an aid in food production and conservation, in military and naval training, and in all the economic, business and industrial problems, whos esolution is as vital to the success of the war aa those of a purely military nature.

Miss Constance Libbey, after a visit here of several weeks with the family of C. W. Hanley, has returned to her home in Boulder, Colo. Mrs. Frank Hamilton and children returned to their home at Lafayette today after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bott, Mrs. Hamilton’s parents.